| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andy Yoder <ayoder(at)airfacts(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: "Too far out of the mainstream" |
| Date: | 2012-09-01 15:01:32 |
| Message-ID: | 12521.1346511692@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> 1) While MySQL is perhaps better marketed, PostgreSQL is an older project
>> with a proud heritage (Informix started as a Postgres fork), and top-rate
> Pretty sure that's not true. Ingres is a cousin of Postgres started
> by the same guy, Stonebraker, but it's not a fork either.
He didn't say Ingres.
Illustra was a commercial fork of Postgres (the pre-SQL versions, I
think). It was later bought out by Informix. I don't have any info
on how much of that code base survives in the modern (IBM-owned)
version of Informix - but one could assume there's at least some.
regards, tom lane
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